LG BD570 Network Blu-ray Disc Player - can this play mkv files? to anyone who has this blu ray player, can it play mkv files 4gb and bigger?
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I've had my LG 570 for about 3 weeks now (got it the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2010). I had no issue having it see my USB 3.0 external hard drive box with a 2TB WD Green HD formatted in NTFS (with many folders and mkv, avi files on that HD). However, playback of files is hit and miss. MVK (high profile) files did play. Occasionally I'd see a message at the beginning "file may not properly play". The file continued to play, looked good too. DTS audio plays too. During playback, I'd see flickering. It may not occur at first but into the movie it happened (tested on many different mkv files and happens more than not). The mkv movie may also start to stutter (both in video and audio) but not until into the movie. These same mkv files play without issues using a PC or my WD Media player live plus with that same USB hard drive box. Some avi (divx 5, 6) did not play their audio. I re tried to play them and they now had audio during playback!?! I do not believe that this player is a "great" mkv player due to the repeated "flickering" issue I've experienced. If that was not present, I'd keep my LG 570 (I'm gonna return it to best buy). I've only tried 1 bluray movie, Independence Day and it played without issues until the very end where it then just stopped. I've read many have bluray playback issues with various titles on this player. After firmware upgrades, they will find that bluray movies that did play now do not. Firmware was updated on my player too (around end of November 2010) I think I'm at current level. But issues still persist.. I'm truly disappointed that this player isn't a better mkv, avi player. It'd be sweet to get one at 150.00 USD to be able to play such a range of files, disks. LG has much work to do with their players (at least this one)..
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Thanks. I've done all that with no results. My last resort is to test the player with a few other Blu-Ray discs. If they play with no problem, I'll return this set to Amazon and ask for another one.
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Yes it is firmware upgradeable but if you do that you will cause the player not to play all the blu-ray regions. Was told not to do a firmware upgrade on mine or lose playing all the regions on the blu-rays.
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Hey, New information!!!! Download the two zip files under BD570 from http://www.lg.com/us/support/product/support-product-profile.jsp?customerModelCode=BD570&initialTab=drivers&targetPage=support-product-profile unzip them and put the files from the two files on a usb drive formated for NTFS. You could try doing it with FAT32, mine was NTFS though. Plug it into the USB port on the player and it will ask you if you want to update. It added a channel in Netcast and fixed a common problem with Netflix.
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It's crazy. I have an LG Blu Ray player and it has always resumed played on all blu ray disc. However just bought my dad a blu ray player (sony) for fathers day and it does not resume play. I had never heard of the issue before and it is unreal that this is a problem. I cannot believe they can't fix that.
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There no disc drive at all, so no it does not play blu-ray. I have an external DVD-RW drive that I use if I need to burn a disc.
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No. It's a good video file player and my friend loves it. You might need to search for a new firmware update on the net to make it play MKV tho as it has difficulty out of the box doing that. Hope that helps you.
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Dear Peter, Thanks for your inquiry. Since there are no 4K or UHD discs available, the Blu-ray player itself does not upscale. There are however, many audio receivers that do upscaling and perhaps that is what you are asking. Hope that makes things clearer for you. Regards, Eric Cohen World Wide Stereo
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You need the software to play the unit. The software does not work on my machine. I even had a IT guy come install and it still had error when trying to play Blu Ray.
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LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc PlayerI experience picture freezing after 17 minutes on the LG. Perform a skip back and the picture would freeze again, etc. Tried powering off and playing again, still the same problem. Any one else have this or is it unique to this unit?
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yes. I put a 11gb MKV of a bluray rip. Played fine. The MKV was on a thumbdrive which was formatted NTFS
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Sorry, didn't complete my response. My LG Blue-Ray Disk is labled M@Disk Bd Rewriter. It should burn the M disk.
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I don't think so.But, as I am concerned, I wouls not rebuy that player.Cannot read many many DVD Blu ray.
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yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray discs. Now all is fine! yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray... » Read More yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray discs. Now all is fine! « Show Less
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I do not have an update as of this time, but I am told the Pioneer will be capable. They seem to be the one on the cutting edge. So I would check for a Firmware update for your unit. I am not in desperate need of triple or four layer Blu-ray, but will probably update just the same. Usually, they have more than one item or capability in each update. That generally means improvement on several fronts.
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There are no further firmware updates for this model. I ran into a similar problem, although my unit wouldn't load a Blu-Ray at all, much less play it. After much frustration looking for a non-existent solution, I got a nice Panasonic Blu-Ray player - that does Internet TV *much* better, I might add - and now can enjoy my Blu-Rays while still using the rest of the Samsung unit's "home theatre" functions, which pretty much boil down to the sound system at this point. The short answer is yes, it's crap.
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I have a mkv that is a 1080p rip, plays 100% fine over SMB on CAT5e wired gigabit and tips in at 15GB, not as far as you wanted to know, but it doesn't struggle for me. Hope this helps a little.